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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example A-3-19 on page II-669 in "Rule boxes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{dashrule}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
A\rule{5cm}{2pt}Z                        \par
A\hdashrule{5cm}{2pt}{}Z                 \par
A\hdashrule[.6ex]{5cm}{1pt}{10pt}Z       \par
A\hdashrule[.6ex]{5cm}{1pt}{5pt 5pt}Z    \par
A\hdashrule[-1pt]{5cm}{2pt}{5mm 1mm}Z    \par
A\hdashrule[-1pt][c]{5cm}{2pt}{5mm 1mm}Z \par
A\hdashrule[-1pt][x]{5cm}{2pt}{5mm 1mm}Z \par
A\hdashrule{5cm}{1pt}{2pt 4pt 6pt 4pt}Z  \par
\end{document}
